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I'm sure people made the same complaints about having to enter a password to use their computer. Honestly, all email/messages should be encrypted transparently; like how every banking website uses SSL.

Yes, I'm aware of PCI DSS. PCI Compliance is not a legal protection, but a very loose set of requirements developed by the Payment industry for websites that process Credit Cards themselves. Also, as consumer confidence in eCommerce dropped, Verisign/Thwart/Hacker-Safe began selling SSL certs and website badges that consumers recognized.

Legal protection is the best course of action for the majority right now.

Don't hold your breath. Penalties for data breaches are high enough. Many companies are basically handing out their user's information to anyone who bothers to run sqlmap.py.

CISPA is almost certain to fail in the house. I don't like to draw party lines, but a vast majority of Republicans voted for it and a pretty good number of Democrats voted against it. If the statistics are the same in the Senate as the House, it will probably not pass. Also, the Senate has people like Rand Paul, Elizabeth Warren, and (I believe) Ron Wyden, who are very good speakers and would almost certainly oppose CISPA. Also, President Obama said he'd veto CISPA. It's not going to pass. IMO, the worry is that so many people in power support something that is clearly unconstitutional.

Very little. The House's primary job is to pass stupid shit to fool their voters into thinking they matter so they can refill their campaign coffers continually. Nevermind making any bill actually viable to pass through the Senate.

The tweet about how can we get involved... FUCKING SERIOUSLY!?!!? If this is the first you have heard about this shoot yourself in the head. OHHH They really went through with it maybe I should do something about it now... NO you should have been calling and e-mailing and harassing the shit out of your representatives for the last 6 months. Not that it really matters unless you send them piles of money they could give a shit less what you have to say.

Are you really that retarded that you post crap like this before you even understand what it is you're commenting on? You can't just "violate CISPA", it's a law that basically eliminates privacy on the internet and allows all your traffic to be shared with the government. It's a good thing you're too young to vote. God damn.